Suhas Chakma admonishes the Maoists: “Nepal is landlocked by India. Nepal can get financial support from China but it is simply not possible to bring gasoline and food supplies for 27 million Nepali people by air. To bring Nepal to a standstill all India needs to do is to put two police constables respectively at the Mahendra Nagar side and the Kakarbitta side along the Indo-Nepal border to strangle Nepal.”
Back in the early seventies, the then US secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz declared a policy of using food as foreign policy weapon. The weapons were used in many places for different purposes. In India, it was used to get India accept the green revolution technology. Are we facing the the same prospect as our food security dwindles and we are increasingly left with less and less option of dealing with India other than by following the dictates?
